On the recordFebruary 29, 2012
Just a couple of comments on some of the previous speaker's remarks. I'm glad to add forestry in one of the areas if there's any jobs lost that the bill won't go into effect if that would garner my friend's support of this amendment. And as he mentioned, he said it himself: it creates winners and losers. That's not what we're about. We're about creating jobs, not moving jobs from one area to another. My friend from California mentioned that there was no salmon fishing and it caused these problems. Well, there's no salmon fishing because the last politically motivated water policy killed 80,000 spawning salmon. It shut down the season--it shut it down. It cost people their boats, and it cost people their jobs. Motels, gas stations, bait shops, grocery stores--everybody was hurt tremendously by that matter, and now we're back at it again trying, once again, to politically move water from one portion of the State to another. It's a job killer and it preempts State law. It's a bad bill, it ought to be killed, and this amendment ought to be added to it. I yield back the balance of my time.
